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Episode #401

Keep A Lid On It

#401 Keep A Lid On It
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Pioneering investigative reporter Nellie Bly

Episode sources:

  1. “Ten Days in a Mad-House” by Nellie Bly

  2. “Around the World in 72 Days” (PBS) 1997

  3. “Damnation Island: Poor, Sick, Mad and Criminal in 19th Century New York” (Stacy Horn)

  4. “Nellie Bly & Stunt Journalism” (Stuff You Missed in History Class) 2010

  5. “Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist” by Brooke Kroeger

  6. “Nellie Bly” by Arlisha R. Norwood (National Women’s History Museum)

  7. “Nellie Bly” (Britannica) 2023

  8. “Nellie Bly” (National Park Service)

  9. “Nellie Bly’s Record-Breaking Trip Around the World Was, To Her Surprise, A Race” by Maris Fessenden (Smithsonian Magazine) 2016

  10. “Blackwell’s Island (Roosevelt Island), New York City” (National Park Service)

  11. “The Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island and the New York Press” by Drs. Samantha Boardman and George Makari (The American Journal of Psychiatry) 2007

  12. “The Girl Puzzle” by Nellie Bly (via David Blixt’s Medium)

  13. “New York’s Notorious Blackwell’s Island w/ Stacy Horn” (Most Notorious! Podcast) 2018

  14. “What Girls Are Good For: 20-Year-Old Nellie Bly’s 1885 Response to a Patronizing Chauvinist” by Maria Popova (The Marginalian) 2014

  15. “Blackwell’s Almanac” (Roosevelt Island Historical Society) 2016

  16. “Lunatics, Inmates, and Homeowners: The History of Roosevelt Island” (Museum of the city of New York) 2015

  17. “The Lost Legacy of the Girl Stunt Reporter” by Katy Waldman (New Yorker)

  18. “The Nellie Bly Song” (PBS)

  19. “Nelly Bly” (New York Public Library) 1999

  20. “Life Story: Elizabeth Cochrane, aka Nellie Bly (1864-1922)” (WAMS New York Historical Society)

  21. “Nellie Bly, Journalist, Dies of Pneumonia” (New York Times) 1922

  22. “The Incredible Story of Nelly Bly, Investigative Reporter” (1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries Podcast)

  23. “Stunt Girl” (Wikipedia)

  24. “The Girl Puzzle”

  25. “The pioneering narrative work of ‘girl stunt reporters’” by Kim Todd (Nieman Storyboard)

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